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Originally Posted by epchick
This is not directly towards you, but if I get a spray tan and I'm not a different color, I'd be PISSED. I'm white to begin with and if I'm the same 'color' after the spray tan, what's the point? The point is to get that bronze/brown color, not to look the same.
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The point is to look naturally different and everyone I know who tries to look 3 shades+ different ends up orange. I haven't seen a successful spray tan (that means natural looking) that did anything more than bronze someone's skin. The $10 stuff I use says "3 shades deeper". It's not. I look like I've spent the day outside, not like I've actually been tanned, but for $10 once a month/2 months that's ok with me. I doubt my friends would notice if I didn't use it, and none of them know I do unless I tell them. Three shades deeper would probably look orange. The Lindsay Lohan/Jersey Shore look isn't the right way to do it.
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Originally Posted by honeychile
I have been to tanning beds twice in my life. Why? To go from pasty white to off white. What did I pay for it? Skin cancer. Needless to say, I'm totally against tanning beds.
That said, I'm against the tax on them. It's easy to tax something that doesn't directly affect you, but then there's a tax on something else, then something else, until finally, you're taxed outrageously for something.
Let's not get our kicks on yet another new tax, people.
[Okay, my inner Libertarian came out to play - doesn't mean I don't believe it!]
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Cigarettes get that extra tax and I doubt it's going to keep people from starting, but it's definitely an extra incentive to quit. I picked up that habit too and it definitely made a huge difference in my finances once I quit. It causes cancer (as my doctor says "think of it as not if but when") and is bad for anyone who is around it, so I didn't mind it being taxed when I did smoke and I don't mind it now...so I guess I'm kind of throwing tanning into the same category. It seems like cosmetic issue to many people but it's just as dangerous as smoking, and personally I'm hoping this will help educate/remind people it isn't the same thing as using bronzer.
I've already had to have a couple of spots removed and go to my dermatologist twice a year to get checked on top of wearing sunscreen at all times and I'll be really lucky if I never get skin cancer. I'd much rather have a few scars than up my risk of developing skin cancer. I don't have an excuse for ever tanning because I was just being a stupid teenager, thinking "it won't happen to me", but because tanning doesn't have the stigma of smoking with the general public there's some element of danger removed, when it shouldn't be. It needs that stigma.
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Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel
You can seriously make NO connection to outward personal appearance and the issues you mentioned, not one? If you're feeling bad as a result of my post, maybe you need to figure out how some anonymous person on line can do that if you take so much pride in all of these things to make yourself look and feel good. Have you never seen an orange person outside of a Willy Wonka movie?
You are still completely missing the point, and I'm glad other people are getting it because I thought I wasn't making myself clear. And no, a spray can tan is not the same as UV protection, sorry.
Healthy glow, your words, not mine.
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Trust me, I don't feel bad about myself in the least, but I think your attitude is unfortunate because it's just irrational. I never once said a spray mist is UV protection. I wear a moisturizer with sunscreen every day and sunscreen on top of that when I'm going to be outside for a while. I recommend everyone do that even if they don't tan-I do have a family member that is young, didn't tan, was careful about sunscreen at all times because they burned easily, that still got skin cancer. But obviously tanning beds increase that chance. A lot. So, once again, I'm against that. But I can't understand why you judge women that use make up, spray mist or hair products. Is nail polish the devil, too?
There are much bigger problems like pressure to be unnaturally thin, pressure to get cosmetic surgery, pressure to go sit in a cancer box, etc. Railing against people who use safe and healthy ways to feel well groomed and cute is ridiculous. I wish young women would be encouraged to play with make up, a Neutrogena spray tan, correctly fitting clothing, and some styling products to help them understand there's absolutely no need for radical and invasive cosmetic procedures, tanning beds, unhealthy eating habits, and damaging chemical straightening or perming. There's nothing wrong with using none of those things either (except the healthy eating habits, obviously), but there's nothing wrong with USING safe and fun alternatives, either, and what I can't understand at all is your judgment of people who wear make up, nail polish, style their hair, or use a Neutrogena spray mist. Wearing make up doesn't indicate that a woman doesn't like herself, and throwing it into the same category as tanning doesn't help anyone feel better about themselves. So no, I do not see a connection between spray tan and horrible self esteem issues.
There is nothing at all un healthy about a healthy, sprayed on glow, face powder, or nail polish.